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[Antonio M]

What is this process that makes my computer crazy?? How can I avoid it?
Antonio Montagnani

Linux Fedora 29 Workstation
da/from Gmail

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2019-01-27 at 11:15 +0100, Antonio M wrote:
> What is this process that makes my computer crazy?? How can I avoid it?

If you mean the process or processes that seem to suck up a lot of CPU,
AFAIK they come from your browser. Quit the browser and they stop. What
specifically is the problem would depend on the pages you have open and
the extensions you use, but they seem to be associated with Javascript.

poc

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 11:30:27 +0000
Patrick O'Callaghan  wrote:
> On Sun, 2019-01-27 at 11:15 +0100, Antonio M wrote:
> > What is this process that makes my computer crazy?? How can I avoid
> > it?
>
> If you mean the process or processes that seem to suck up a lot of
> CPU, AFAIK they come from your browser. Quit the browser and they
> stop. What specifically is the problem would depend on the pages you
> have open and the extensions you use, but they seem to be associated
> with Javascript.

A utility like top or htop will tell you in real time which process is
abusing your CPU. In my case, whenever CPU is up to 100%, the culprit is
always the browser, executing some braindead javascript in an infinite
loop.

If you use firefox (like me), there are many addons out there that
enable/disable javascript on demand, or give you more fine-grained
control. Other browsers probably have something analogous as well.

I generally keep javascript off by default, and turn it on
only when I need it for a particular page. That keeps my (oldish) CPU
usage much more reasonable. Besides, most of the web pages out there
use javascript merely to display ads and other useless cruft and bloat
that just gets in my way of the actual useful content on the page.

HTH, :-)
Marko

[Samuel Sieb]

On 1/27/19 2:15 AM, Antonio M wrote:
> What is this process that makes my computer crazy?? How can I avoid it?
> Antonio Montagnani

It's Firefox.  They have moved web page handling into sub processes 
which is very nice.  If you kill the Web Content process that is going 
crazy, you won't kill Firefox and you can find out the possible tabs 
that were causing the problem.